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Acer rubrum · wildlife atlas entry

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Acer rubrum , the red maple , also known as swamp , water or soft maple , is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. The red maple ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to eastern Texas.... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

red maple — reference photo from iNaturalist — no rights reserved, uploaded by mefisher · cc0

Record card

Scientific name	Acer rubrum
Rank	species
Community observations	167,846 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Sapindales › family Sapindaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Uwharrie National Forest, Troy, NC, US
no rights reserved · cc0

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Amherst Center, Amherst, MA, USA
(c) Sean Babineau, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-10 · Hoke County, NC, USA
(c) gilbertj, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Richmond, RI 02892, USA
(c) 🐦‍⬛kestrel🍄, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Belwood Loop, New York, NY, US
(c) Maxim Elberg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

red maple photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Brundidge, AL, US
(c) pcharris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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